The Andhra Pradesh government has neither recommended nor made a request for including any backward classes (BCs) omitted in the Central list for reservations in Central government jobs and educational institutions, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
He was replying to a question by BJP MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao on the reasons for the non-inclusion of 39 castes in the Central list and reasons for pendency with the Central government.
In a release, Mr. Narasimha Rao said 146 castes were included in the State list of socially and educationally backward classes (BCs) in Andhra Pradesh. However, in the Central list of OBCs for reservation in Central government jobs and educational institutions, only 107 castes were included.